Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Aims & Scope

The major forum for scholarship on the Holocaust and other genocides, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed international journal featuring research articles, interpretive essays, and book reviews in the social sciences and humanities.

The articles and reviews in Holocaust and Genocide Studies reflect the opinions of their authors.

They do not reflect the opinions of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The listing of a publication in the bibliography of "Recently Published Works" does not indicate endorsement by the Museum.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.139

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	24

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	25382

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	32

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Questioning Dehumanization: Intersubjective Dimensions of Violence in the Nazi Concentration and Death Camps

  Citation: 53

  Authors: J.

• Psychological Perspectives on the Perpetrators of the Holocaust: The Role of Situational Pressures, Personal Dispositions, and Their Interactions

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Thomas

• Witnessing Genocide: Vigilance and Remembrance at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek

  Citation: 41

  Authors: Paul

• The Politics of Uniqueness: Reflections on the Recent Polemical Turn in Holocaust and Genocide Scholarship

  Citation: 36

  Authors: G. D.

• Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917

  Citation: 36

  Authors: K.

• Were the Perpetrators of Genocide “Ordinary Men” or “Real Nazis”? Results from Fifteen Hundred Biographies

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Michael

• Creating a Modern "Zone of Genocide": The Impact of Nation- and State-Formation on Eastern Anatolia, 1878-1923

  Citation: 32

  Authors: M.

• Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Roger W., Eric, Robert Jay

• Raphael Lemkin, Cultural Destruction, and the Armenian Genocide

  Citation: 29

  Authors: P.

• THE THEORY AND PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE

  Citation: 25

  Authors: MICHAEL

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